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This was sent out by Mozilla today via email, fighting the recent SREN bill proposed by France โœŠ

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[โ€“] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 2 years ago

Anyone with even basic skills can write a very simple web browser that just makes http requests and displays the output

No.

99% of people can't.

Even downloading a special browser that doesn't comply with the limitations would still be inaccessible to most users.

If you think the average citizen can code a browser you are very mistaken.